August 2010 - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-dev-public] poppler soname bump
by Jan de Groot 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

The poppler/poppler-glib update to 0.14 includes a soname bump for poppler and poppler-glib. Packages depending on these libraries should be rebuilt. I already did all packages in extra, some packages in community still need an update. To track the rebuild, a todo list was created: http://www.archlinux.org/todo/38/ Please rebuild these packages in community-testing and flag them as complete after that.

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[arch-dev-public] The "Great Python Rebuild of 2010" begins
by Allan McRae 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Hi, I have pushed the new python (3.1) and python2 (2.7) packages to the new [staging] repo so rebuilds can start there. Remember the staging repo should never be used outside a build chroot... If you do, everything python related will break on your system. TUs will not be able to start uploading rebuilds yet as they do not have a staging equivalent, but we will sort something out for them once we get all the db-scripts/devtools changes tested for the main one first. The package pool is going to save us a heap of issues when this gets moved so it is worth the wait. The key things to remember with the rebuild are: - build in clean chroots. Most packages will detect "python2" or "python-2.7" once they see no "python" and use that. Some will need simple patching. - change your dependencies to python2 - check files for #!'s with "/usr/bin/python" or "/usr/bin/env python". If you have those you will need to do a sed to change them to python2. If you come across a package that you can not easily fix, add it to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Python_Todo_List#Packages… and I will take a look at it. Have fun, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] archbuild: building in a chroot for the lazy
by Pierre Schmitz 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi all, atm every dev has his own scripts or he just doesn't build his packages in a chroot. Even though mkarchroot and makechrootpkg exist they are not straight forward to use and you need to configure your chroot properly. My long term goal is to create easy to use tools which will use the exact same build environment for everyone. The first attempt is now in testing with devtool-0.9.9. In short: All you need to do now is run e.g. extra-i686-build, testing-x86_64-build, staging-i686-build etc.. This will do all the boring work for you like creating the correct chroot etc.. In more detail: * By default the script will create the chroots in /var/tmp/archbuild. Make sure you have enough disk space here. You might use another dir by using the -r switch. * The -c switch will recreate the chroot even if it already exists. * You can also build i686 pacakges on x86_64. * TUs can use extra-*-build and testing-*-build to build packages for community or community-testing. * You user will need the permission to use sudo * Set PACKAGER, MAKEFLAGS, SRCDEST, PKGDEST in your ~/.makepkg.conf * the first enabled mirror in your mirrorlist will be used for the chroots; local mirrors using file:// are supported. This is in early stage and far from ready. So feedback and feature request are more than welcome. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] iproute2 2.6.35-3
by Ronald van Haren 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi, The patch I applied to -2 was rejected by upstream as although it fixed the issue with the original source, it also re-enabled a bug which was supposed to be fixed with the 2.6.35 release. Upstream has applied an alternate fix which is applied to this -3 release. please signoff. Ronald

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] sudo-1.7.4.p3-1
by Allan McRae 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Upstream bug fix release. Signoff both, Allan

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] openssh 5.6p1-1
by Thomas Bächler 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

I went ahead and updated openssh to the latest upstream release, please sign off.

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[arch-dev-public] Back from vacation
by Daniel Isenmann 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Hi, I'm back from 3 weeks vacation. It was awesome...Canada (especially BC and Alberta) is a great country. I'm fighting through ~4500 mails and against my jetlag, so after I have win the fights I will be back at "work". Cheers, Daniel

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[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.21-1
by Tobias Powalowski 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-dev-public] inkscape finding a maintainer
by Ionuț Bîru 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, the current maintainer is kinda away/busy since a long time ago and we need to find maintainer for at least inkscape, which seems to be an important piece of software. Does anyone in our dev team uses inkscape like a daily bases and wants to maintain it? If nobody wants it, Carlier Laurent, which is a trusted users, agreed to maintain it. -- Ionuț

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[arch-dev-public] new lighttpd package
by Pierre Schmitz 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, I am about to move lighttpd 1.4.28 to [extra]. Take care of the upstream changes; especially if you are using ipv6. I have also rewritten the rc script to use lighttpd-angel and hopefully made it more robust. This way graceful reload and shutdown is now supported. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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